Kathmandu, Feb. 3 -- Tourism Minister Badri Prasad Pandey re-registered two long-pending civil aviation bills in the lower house of Parliament on Sunday-three years after their passage by the upper house.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Bill and the Air Service Authority of Nepal Bill propose splitting Nepal's aviation body into two entities: a regulatory body and a service provider-a key requirement for Nepal to be removed from the European Commission's air safety list.

These bills have been going around in a legislative loop for over a decade and half, with successive governments making assurances to international aviation bodies but failing to follow through.

Minister Pandey emphasised the importance of the bills in the revise...